Win Magazine Volume 12 Number 32

Many thanks for your special Appalachian issue [IVIN, 8/ L9 / 761. I say
this for several reasons. One is that
such a btoad based profile ofthe area
suggests a comprehensive, culturally
rooted approach to social change rather
than an isolated issue approach.
Another is that, no matfeir ho* many
miles away the Yukon may seeml and, in
spite ofsome rather substantial regional
differences, the entire issue hit very
close to home-which is a company
town-a mining town-in a remote area
still very primitive by the standards of
western indushial societv.
And you don't have tobe a Yankee
peacenik turned minet/communþ
.
education/development worker to
appreciate it eithei. My single copy is
alrêady in sad shape ftom the amount of
use it's_gotten since I left it hanging
aroundthe unioú office.

Yr

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_GANYEIKENBERRY

Èlsa, Yukon, Canadr

I must take exception to David McReynotds' letter [WIN, 7 /29 / 76]. He
chides Uhl.Ensign for taking my word
that the Portuguese CP favors a peace:
ful development of the revolution and is
ofrDosed tõ a forcible seizure of power.
lücReynolds calls it "extraordinarily
naive" to believe that I, a member of
the CP-USA's National Committee,
would say anything different even if
that were in fact the position of the PCP.
I deeolv resent the inference that I
would deiiberately falsifu a position as
some kind of Party "duty," or that anyone in the CP would ask me to do so. If I
had any doubts about the PCP's Polþ
on the inatter of forcible overthrow, I
would have exptessed them i¡ my book
or at least remãined mute on that question. Under no circumstances would I
engage in deliberate deception. I have,
of õourse, made my shate of errors in
judgment in the past, and will undoubtedly make some in the future, but
these have been and will be honest

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ones.

Concerning the article by Bruce
Kokopeli and George Lakey, "More
Power Than \{e \ilant: Masculine
Sexuality and Violence," [\ryIN,
7 /29/761 where did they get the idea
that women are more "suooortive" of
the movement than men, õi rather nonhomosexual men? Our experience as
the oldest staffin the homosexual
movement has not shown this.
. _WI¿IAMEDWAru} GLOVER
for the Eomo¡oxu¡l

Pentagon press secretary can turn
around and use to his advantase.
Research on birdstrikes falls right into

the category ofthe type of Pentagon
spending that benefitspivilians as muÒh
or maybe more, Examples:
On June 29th, 1975, an Air Malawi
BAC-1-11 civilian airliner was damaged
en routê to Nairobi; On November 1ãth,
t975, an Overseas National Airways
McDonell Douglas DC-10 engine
exploded on takeoffat New York City;
On November 25th, 1975, a British
Caledonian Airlines Boeing 741 with
November 20th, 1975 a Hawker
Siddeley HS. 125-600 crashed on takeoff
from Dunsfold, England. Six people on
the ground were killed.
All ofthe above incidents occurred due
to birds being ingested into the engines
or birds striking the windshield and
damaging the cbckpits or distracting the
pilots. Without a mention of the civilian
sector ofthis subject, your article gives
an inaccurate and sloppy image to what
was.once a better magazine.

on city windowsills.
My need to be needed
is siéved to tiny piecesa kindly bomb, it burst

when all the boulevards were empty.
No one was really hurt.
No need to dust until tomorrow.
Touch instead this silken truce of sills,
muse awhile alone, enjoy the calm
of something vicious gone.

,

Steven Lydenberg's recent article on
birdstrikes and the B-1 bomber [WIN,
8/5/761is a perfect example of what a

Plttrburgh,

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The ticking stops.
You almost can forget
the others stockpiled in your head.

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Another day I wanted
country calm,
no soot from cities burning, wasted, dead
I bought some flowers,
put more plants in pots.
My rooms were born, alive and green.
Too soon, the plants all needed water.
I thought l'd have to leave.
One plant that wasn't leaning
pushed a leaf let through the air,
"No, you don't just need dependents.

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I was disappointed in Dwight Ernest's recent uncritiçal reference to the use of
Citizen's Band (CB) radios to enable
larce numbers oftrucks and cars to
vioÏate the 55 m.p.h. speed limit [WIN,
8/12/76l.flieh speeds, as has
frequentlv been clocumented, inctease
violènt hiähwav deaths (and also waste
eniigvl. Ã pacínst magàzine should be
oppoiêd to îiolence an-d aggression by

ñ/

You really need to cate.i'
Calm held me for a moment,
then I felt the ticking pare
a few more pieces from me:
"We could die tomorrow
but you still
would need to care."

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tñfüI-seeking drivers. More to the point
is how CB can be used to build commqnity and provide comtnunication
outsidê of thè monopolistic telephone
comoanv: this is an ãrea we need to ex-

olorätuither.
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-AILENYOUNG
Royalston, ll{rse.

Margaret Lacy Martino

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This calm has settled
like the fine black silt

Why not begin helping Zwerling's
[WIN, 8/5/7ó] reform movement by not
referring to your book reviewers by
degree and school. Bytelling usthat
Lant has a PhD from Haward you are
supporting the very hierarchicàl and
elitist system that Sec'ond Bost is
putting down. It's funny how you never
see credentials ofthis sort after a
reviewer's name: "Associate's Degree,
Staten Island Community Collef;I"

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9. The Challenge of China
Certrude Rosenb/um
13. Poems of Mao Tsetung

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MARTY JEZER

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It took me until a year ago to come to an understanding and with that understanding an appreciation of the life and works of Mao Tsetung. The
socialization process that instills in every young
American a fear and hatred of all things communist had taken its toll on me. lndoctrination
began when I was an adolescent during the period
of the Cold War. Like every kid, I was a passionate
collector of the baseball trading cards that came in
nickel packets with three slabs of awful tasting
pink bubblegum. I memorized the statistics on the
back and flipped, traded or pitched my duplicates
in order to get a complete se!.
Sometime in the early fifties, a new series of
bubblegum trading cards appeared under the
glass cóunter of my neighborhood candy store.
Atomic Bazooka Bubblegum Trading Cards they
were called, and they told the story of our
country's res i stance to the Comm un ist-in spired
Cold War. J ust as I learned the history of the
American West by watching John Wayne kill
lndians at the Saturday movie matinee, I learned
postwar American history from these Cold War
bubblegum packets.
The card of Mao Tsetung particularly stuck in
my mind. I donlt know why. Maybe it was because
the mole on his chin was exaggerated into a
cancerous wart. Or maybe it was his jaundiced
skin, a sickly yellow that touched upon my deepest
culturally acquired racism. I was reading Sax
Rohmer novels at the time and the picture of Mao
fit my fantasy of that "evil, foul smelling" villain,
Dr. Foo Man Chu. I wonder now if these bubblegum cards were not CIA inspired? Certainly, they
were a brilliant propaganda coup, and the artists
responsible were skilled practicioners of the
propaganda art. For the next 20-odd years, I could
not even think of Chairman Mao without recalling
his sinister face on the Atomic Bazooka Bubblegum cards.
Later, when I began to identify with the left, the
Maoist movement-as I perceived it in Americareinforced this distorted itereotype. Those leftwing factions (Progressíve Labor is the best
example) that called themselves Maoist invariably

Marty Jezer, one of the originaleditors oÍ WlN, is
organizing around the issues of public power and
stopping nuclear power in Vermont.
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had the most sectarian, dogmatic and irrelevant,
off-the-wall politics. That they also violated the
essence of Mao's thought did not occur to me untilmuch later, because for too long a time I was wont
to congratulate myself on my ignorance of Chairman Mao.
Cradually, this stereotype crumbled. Being a
farmer, I could not ignore the advances made in
Chinese agriculture. Living on an agricultural
commune also inspired interest. Couldn't Packer
Corner Farm "learn from Tachai"? People I
trusted returned from China enthusiastic about
what they saw. I was wary. During the twenties
and thirties, radicals had toured the Soviet Union
and come back with glowing reports. But.l
respected my friends, they were clearheaded
people not easily taken in. I started paying more
attention to what was going on in China. But still I
refused to learn about Mao.
During this periód I participated in my first
political study group; a group of us meeting one
night a week to read and discuss the different
theories of the great revolutionary thinkers, and to
try and apply their observations and experiences
to the political work we were doing in Vermont. !
For me, this was a difficult challenge.'I had never
before studied Marx or Marxism and much of
what we talked about threatened the views that I
held from the past. Change is always difficult, and
I resisted understanding our discussions with all
the stubbornness I could muster, which is not inconsiderable. Looking back, l've come to realize
that I suffered from the same kind of rigid sectarianism I see in many pacifists, or activists
influenced by the nonviolent tradition, We are
afraid of theory. We equate theory with Marxism
and view Marxism as dogmatic and at one with
violence; hence theory leads to violence and we
want no part of it. True, in the American left,
Marxists are often dogmatic. And we are all
familiar with the problems of left sectarianism.
There must be something inherent in Marxism (or
'perhaps in all ideology) that leads to this because
it is a problem in China as well. At least Mao was
always warning his cadre against it. To be a good
Marxist or a proper Maoist is to be free of
dogmatism and sectarianism. "Marxism," said
Mao, "is not a dogma but a guide to action."
Once I began to understand it as a tool for viewing
the world, and not. as a static description of what
makes up the world, I began to absorb much of

what we read.

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Still, it was not easy. I had difficulty understandiñg Marx because he wrote of a time with
which I was not familiar, and I learn best when l'
can apply what I learn directly toryy own experience.'l'did better reading Marx's more modern
interpreters than'l did frõm reading Marx himself .
Leniñ put me off completely. Perhaps this too was
a product of my Cold War brainwashing, for I still
háve an aversión to anything connected with the
Soviet Union. And Lenin's style-cold and uncompromising in its certainty-fit my stereotype
of what Bolshevism is all about.
Sick in bed for a week and feeling duty bound to
read sómething political, I started to tackle Mao'
It was a week of intellectual and emotional
catharsis. A coming home. Like the time in High
Schoolwhen I read-On The Road and knewthat
whatever or whoever l was now I would not always
be. Or later, reading Thoreau for the f irst time,
reatizing thât I need no longer hide.my beliefs; I
would hãve to act. "What are you doing in jail,
Henry?" asked Ralph Waldo Emerson' "What
are you doing not iniail," replied Thoreau.
For'a starter I read Han Suyen's popular
biography of Mao. Then Edgar Snow's classic Red
Star

Ovei China. William Hinton's Fanshen came

next and it described for me a very model way to
run a revolution. Finally, I took on fhe Se/ected
Readings. Mind you, until now lhad never read a
word of-Mao. ¡ hád been so hostile to the image of '
him that t had never even looked into fhe Little
Red Book, not even to laugh at the sayings that
taken in ignorance and out of context seem like
self-paroily. But reading Mao was like reading a
gooci novei. I could hardly put it down. I imagined
mvself a peasant cadre in the caves of Yenan.
Leãrning'how to be a good Communist, which, in
Maoist térms, is learning how to be a very good
human being. Much of Mao's writings come out of
the time before liberation when the Chinese Communist Party controlled only their small base in
Yenan. His concern then was building up the
base, strengthening the organization, training
illiterate peasan t cadre, putting together the nuts
and the bolts of making a revolution. Nothing was
too minor for hi s concern
Another problem is between old and
new cadres. lf our Party does not
have a g,reat many new cadres

working in unity and co-operation
with the old cadres, our cause
will come to a stoq. All old

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Mao in Yenan
after the Long March

cadres, therefore, should welcome th'e new ones
with the utrnost enthusiasrn and show them the
warmëst so/icitude. True, new cadres have their
shortcomings. fhey have not been in the revolution long and lack experience. . . . . But such
shortcomings can be gradually eliminated through
education and tempering in the revolution. The
strong point ol the new cadres. . . is that they are
acutely sensitive to what is new and are therefore
enthusiastic and active to a high degree-the very
qualities which some of tlrc old cadres /ack.
Cadres, new and old, should respect each other
and overcome their own shortcomings by learning
from each other's strong poi nts, so as to u nite as
one in the common cause and guard against sec-

tarian tendencies.
Elemental sociat dynamics, or so it would seem.
But hów many times in our o*n rnoue-ent have
older, veteran organizers-arrogant with experience-ignored or dismissed the younger folk who
came to the movement with enthusiasm and a
desire to work. How much better we would all be
with a textbook guide to revolutionary conduct, a
concrete description of how organizers should
conduct themselves.
Mao was a humanist. His teachings cover the
breadth of human experience and tie everything
into an organic whole. For those who would model
themselves after Mao, the theoretician of guerrilla
warfare, and take out of context the dictum that
"por,ver comes out of a barrel of a gun," there is
this adviçe, given in a speech to workers and
peasants in 1934 during a time of civil war:

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lf we only mobilize the people to carry on the war
and do nothing else, can we succeed in defeating

the enemy? Of course not. If we want to win, we
must do a great deal more. We must lead the
peasants' struggle for land and distribute land to
them, heighten their labor enthusiasrn and increase agricultural production, safeguard the
interests of the workers, establish cooperatives,'
develop trade with outside areas, and'solve the'
problems facing the masses-tood, shelter and
clothing, fuel, rice, cooking oil and sa/t, sickness
and hygiene, and marriage. ln short, allthe
practìcal problems in the masses' everyday life
should claim our attention. lf we attend to these

problems, solve them and satisfy the needs of the
rnasses, we shall really become organizers of the
well-being of .thg rnasses, and they willtrulv rally
round us and give us their warm éupport. Com-'
rades, will we then be able to arouse ihem to take
part in revolutionary war? Yes, indeed, we will.
What I found most appealing in Mao,s thought
built-in tension of all his ideas. tt is demõcratic centralism with emphasis both'on authentic
demo_cracy and party discipline with room in the
middle to work things out..There is a fluidity to
Mao's idea of contradiction, a basic tenet in his
philosophy that seems to join Chinese dualism
with Marxist dialectics. Maóism accepts contradictibn and strúggle as a permanent state of
things. Even after the revolution is won, contradictions still exist and struggle must go on. tn a
iense, the idea that opposites are contained in all
things is similar toour system of checks and
balances. But under our system the checks and
balances cancel each otherout. ln China, contradictions must be worked out, the revolution is
never altogether won, because process is education and the on-going aim of the revolution is to
heighten the consciousness of the people, to bringl
about the birth of a new human being who has
integrated communist values into his or her very
being. So revolution is permanent, which was
what the cultural revolution was all about. This is
what Mao said to the Central Committee in 1949,
at the brink of victory.
is the

With victory, certain moods may grow within the
Party-arrogance, the airs of the self-s,tyled.hero,
inertia and unwillingness to make progress, love
of pleasure and distaste for continued hard
living. . .There may be some Communists, who
were not conquered by enemies with guns and
were worthy of the name of heroes for standing up
to these enemies, but who cannot withstand
sugar-coated bullets; they will be defeated b:y
sugar-coated bullets. We must guard against such
a situation. To win country-wide victory is only the
Íirst step in a long march of ten thousand li . . .
After several decades, the victory of the Chinese
people's democratic revolution, viewed in
retrospect, will seem like only a brief prologue to a
long drama. A drama begins with a prologue, but
the prologue is not the climax. The Chinese
revolution is great, butthe road aÍter the revolution will be longer, the work g¡eater and more
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Marty Jezer
at the old WIN farm

arduous.

The duty of everY Communist is to
rid himself of aloofness and
arrogance and to work well with
non-"party cadres, give theñr sincere
help, have a warm, comradelY 3t-tituïe toward them and enlist their
initiative in the great cause of . ' '

reconstructing the nation.

The work goes on today in the struggle between
the Maoist rãd¡cals and the capitalist roaders. To
ðutside obtetu"ts, this is viewQd-as a struggle for
power. But struggle is inherent ih the Maoist
svstem. and the óntradiction between those who
uâlru ulot"romic eff iciency over building socialist
consciousness among the people must continue,.
and the orocess of stiuggle will serve as political
education. What other system of government
such turmoii, considering it a sign of
"ncoriag"t
health.
With Mao, there are two kinds of contradiction s. Àntàgôn i stic contradiction s exist' between
i¡ré
ãnd those who would destroy them; for
""ootàbetween the Communists and the
instäncä,
Kuominiang. The solution to this contradiction is
äimóa siiue?le, victory through peoples' war' But
with Mao, itlã en¿s and means-if.violence is the
def i n i n g fãctor - are not necessari ly indivi s i ble'
The Chlnese Revolution, so far, has proven that a
violent revolution can bring forth a relatively nonviolent society, and can create the kind of social '
cohesion and sense of community that is a prereouisite for such a societY.
Contradictions that continue to exist after
liberation, and after socialism is achieved, are
ðlassif ied ãs non-antagon i stic contrad iction s and
ihe method of treating them is education and
persuasion. Mao lists some of these contradictions
as

between the government and the péople. . . among
thã ¡nterestsóf the state, the interests of the collective and the interests of the individual; between
de^ocrary and centralism; between the leader'shio
and the led; and the contradiction arising
Íro'm the bureaucratic sty/e of work of certain'
government workers in their relations with the
rnasses.

How are these contradictions to be resolvêd?

According to Mao by "unity, criticism, unity. . '.
tfrãmetnõd we empÍoy is'democratic, the method
of persuasion, not of comPulsion."
À hallmark of Mao's leadership is a readiness to
admit mistakes, to adjudge theory in light of
oractice and to alter theory and change practice
ilt the results make it necessary. I can think of
few"npoliticians who have ev-er publicly admitted
beinþ wrong. But acknowledging and then correctiñg mi3takes is a built-in aspect of Maoist
ideology. "lf we have shortcomings, we are not

afraid to have them pointed out and criticiz-ed, beãäuìã*" serve the people," Mao said. in19.44;
a situation
iñ;ar against the J apanese,d clin scourage
ã;;ñc-most
other govern ments wou
wh en
åiiiìä¡i* ãiinpat-riotic in time of war and an
impediment to national unitY'
Lik" rnany admirers of Mao Tsetung.and supoorters of the Chinese Revolution, I believe
Itrongly that China's current forei.qn policy is
tiagiåúv wrong. Cultural nationalism seems to
t uuî t. ¡r.irn phecl- over proletar an i ntern at ional i sm'
And too stiict an inteipretation of the Maoist concept of primary and secondary contradictions
seem to be a cause. The Russian model ot
bureaucratic socialism is the primary contradiction within the Chinese homeland' The Maoists
*ho a.u resisting this tendency surely should be
supported. But tiey then extend this internal
contradiction and apply it to foreign affairs' Soviet
imoerialism has been decisive in Eastern Europe,
bu[ no*trere else. Cuba, Angola, Vietnam and
other socialist countries owe their existence to
lóuiet support, but are not slaves of Soviet policy'
Ífr" ÙS siiil rema¡ns the primary threat to the
Chinese people and to world peace. No government whblly'lives up to its own theory.' But Mao
frui ã¡u"n tÉe Chinese.a theoretic working model,
tãstãA by practice for many years' Because he
i"or"sentäd so much to the Chinese people-as
thäir warrior-liberator, as their teacher,
óhìlosopher, and spiritual guide-his theory will
not easily bé displáced. But whether a new
ãene.atión of Chinese leaders-a generation that
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Anyone, no matter who, may point
out our shortcomings. lf he (sic) is
right, wä will act upon ¡t. . . .lf, in
the interests of the people, we persist in doing what is right and
correct what is wrong, our ranks
wili surely thriye.

liberation days and did not share the rigors of the
Lons March-can applv Mao's theory with so
care"ful a concern foi human detail remains to be '
seen. The Maoist challenge is a staggering one,
demanding nothing less than a total reversal of
what hereiofore has been the tragic competitive,
warmongering course of human historyMao ¡ldeað, as are so many of the other leaders
of the Chinese'Revolution. He led and inspired a
movement that transformed for the good the lives
of a quarter of the world's people. He did it
asainst odds that todav seem astonishing. The
vãrv idea that he believed that he and th'e people
of ihina could make a revolution marks the vision
ãf thu tun. The idea of a revolution in our own
country seems diff icult to us. We are still in a very
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early stage; we've not even established a base
camp like Mao had in the Yenan caves.
ln 1945, Mao gave the concluding speech to the
SeVenth National Party Congress. Japan was not
yet defeated, though victory was certain. Ahead
lay civil war with the Kuomintang, armed to the
teeth by the US, enjoying even the support of
Joseph Stalin. The Chinese Communísts were
isolated and in terms of military might and diplo'
matic standing should have had no chance of
winning. Mao told this story.
There was a foolish old man whose house faced
two gigantic mountains. With great determination
he led his sons in digging up these mountains hoe
in hand. A wise old man saw them working and
said, derisively, "How silly of you to do thJsl lt is
quite impossible for you to dig up these two huge
mountains." But the foolish old man was unshaken. He replied, "When I die my sons wilt
carry on; when they die there will be my grândsons, and then their sons and grandsons ãnd so on
to infinity. High as they are the mountains cannot
groì/v any higher and with every bit we dig, they
will be that much lower. Why can't we cleár thém
away?"
The old man and his sons went on digging, day
after day, unshaken in their conviction. Perhaps,
from what we know of China, his daughters
eventually joined him, and their daughters and
grand daughters. But as Mao told thè story, Cod
was moved by the foolish old man's persistence.

The Challenge of China
GERTRUDE ROSENBLUM

He sent down two angels, who carried the,mountains away on their backs. Today, two big maun-

tains |ie |ike a dead weight on the Chinese people.

One is imperialism; the other is feudalism. The

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Chinese Communist Party has long made up its
mind to dig them up. We rnustperseyere and
work unceasingly and we, too, willtouch Cod's
heart. Our God is none other than the rnasses of
the Chinese people. If they stand up and dig together with us, why can't these twó mountãins be

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cleared away?

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ln the US, our vision of the future is likewise
obstructed by a range of mountains. Call them
sexism, racism, imperialism, and there are other,
lesser peaks. Those of us digging are few in
number. The Chinese Communists at the start
were also few in number and they faced a repression so murderous that, like Hitler's ovens, it
cannot be fathomed. But they won, and today the
revolution lives. Their experience is our inspiration. There is much that we can learn from the
People's Republic of China and from the writings
and teachings of its great leader, Mao Tsetung.

I believe that the People's Republic of China today
must stand as a challenge to pacifists and others '
who would dismiss it as not relevant to nonviolent
social change because of its history of a people's
army, its siñgle-party system, it+4bsence of
Western conõepts of i'freedom" ahd its media
image of conformity and repression. China's
revolution, despite its history of arméd struggle,
has created a basically nonviolent society.
ln the Peoples Republicof China, the means
have not become the ends. China's people are
honest, courteous, gentle, and leisurely. Their
magnanimity to "foreign guests". is overwhelming. iheir institutions rely heavily on education of those they serve so as to keep them
viable and within the socialist structure of their
society. Schools relate instruction to the daily lives
of theír students, "combining education with
politics to serve the revolution , " Factories and
agricultural communes are integrated with
housing, medical facilities, recreational and
cultural areas. No geographic separation for work
and living. China's army is volunteer and literally
"serves {he people." (They will even rescue you if
you wander off and get surrounded by dtrzens of
Chinese without your even calling for help.)
Prisoni and work camps are programmed for reeducation and rehabilitation thru constructive
labor, not for. punishment. Courts rely on conciliation, not conviction. People speak freely to
each other as v-vell as to foreign guests. No one is
under surveillance
The transformation from violent treatment to
concerned caring and respect is apparent in the
lives of the aged in China, the national minority

Certrude Rosenblum visited China in May of this

people, children, and women. The Peoples
Republic of China values these groups and goes
all out to integrate them into the mainstream of
their socialist society.
First, there are the Aged. Their roots are in
sem i-colon ial, sem i-feudal Ch i na. Today thei r
lives are lived in a revolutionary society in the
communes. One such is the "Home of Respect for
the Aged'l in the Nanyuan Commune in Peking.
82 men and women averaging 75 years, but
ranging in age from'48 years to 92 years, reside
here. ln pre-liberation days they were on the
streets, begging. Most were illiterate. Now they
participate in political studies. Yet, they have a
great need to "relive" their lives and do so with
the young cadrês of the commune. Those able to
work are givên assignments. "The Home of
Respect for the Aged" is self-supporting thru
sheep-raising. All who live here have the "f ive
guarantees" food, cloth i n g, shelter, medi cal
care, burial . TheywelcomeAmerican "friénds"
and eagerly talk about their lives today and.yesterday. They are delighted to see themselves in a
Polaroid snapshot.
Older men who have participated in such his.' torical events as the 1923 Peking-Hangchow Railroad Strike or the blasting of thõYellow Rlver
dykes (after being beaten into submission by officers of the Koumintang army) today enjoy an almost privileged position. They are comfortably
housed, well-dressed, and are honored persons at
briefings for visitors. ln Wúhan, Comrade Wu
Shan, now 84 years old, recalls in detail experiences on the.picket line during the railway strike;
the killing of 32 comrades by police; the march of
3,000 railways workers into the foreign concessions
. (areas controlled by Europeans from which native
Chinese were barred). Comrade Huan, 74,with
great feeling can still sing songs he learned during
the railway strike, 53 years ago!
Living family lives in their own homes, are older

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people like Wang-Fu-Chiaof Shanghai and Chian

Weir-Ching of Pðking. Chian is a retired cultural
worker, a former musician with the PekingOpera'
He receives 80 yuan (1,yuan = .52 US cents) per
month as his pension; his last wage as a musician
was 120 yuan per mohth. ln the old society, Chian
says he " driÍted;" never had enough food or
cloth¡ne. He worked as a musician since age17 .
Chian'ltwo older brothers died of cold and
starvation. Now Chian lives with his wife in a
nãatly kept two-room apartment in the "Temple of
Moon Neighborhood" of the Nanyuan Commune'
He teachel the two-string fiddle to young people

begged for 15 years, then pulled a rickshaw for 27
yeãrJ. ln 1949, he became a pedicab driver. Three
generations bófore him were illiterate, but now all
ñ¡s sons are receiving an education in middle
schools, technical schools, and universities' Wang
listenq to news broadcasts daily at 6 a¡n. Ie
quotes news steries in detail. He shadow boxes in
his spare time. He also teaches, "bringing education to the masses."

chosen to meet foreign guests.
A second.group oiChìnese people. who lived for
centuries under the violence of invading armies,
medical neglect, illiteracy, and famine are the

a
and attends political study classes. He reads
newspapers to keep informed about foreign affairs

well as domestic matters. Chian's wife has
joined
an embroidery brigade.
Chian is in daily touch with all the residents of
his neighborhood. When you ask him how dis- .
agreements, quarrels, or antisocial behavior in his
neighborhood are handled, he tells you such
thír6s are not really problems. He says the residentl of his area are concerned and considerate
people who have been educated to respect the
l'¡ghts of others. But when antägonisms do occur
thãy are dealt with on the spot by the people
themselves. Cuns are not drawn; senseless
shootings do not eruPt.
Wang-Fu-Chia is another representative of
China'Jold generation whose life has spanned
violent and nonviolent days. He lives in the Melon
Lane "Model" Commune in Shanghai' lt was
formerly a garbage drrmp. Wang is introduced to
t'veieran workeq," tho he was a former
us as a
beggar and rickshaw driver, Before moving into
his two room apartment in Melon Lane, Wang and
his family lived in a mud shack and later, in a
thatched roof house. Three generations before
him were beggars. He was the only member of his
family to survive after arriving in Shanghai. He
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national minorities. Their cultural heritage, too,
brings them into conflict with revolutionary
change. Fully aware of the nationalism of the
natioñal minorities, and followihg Mao's belief
that it is'"imperative to foster good relations
between the Han people and the minority nationalities," China is creating a place in her
society for the 6%o of her 800,000,000 people (1970
census) who are Mongolian, Hiu, Tibetan,
Uighur, Miai, Yi, Chuang, Korean, Manchu-46
naiionalities in all. They are scattered thru out
China, primarily in the northwest, the southwest,
and northeast of the mainland.
The Central lnstitute for Nationalities was established in Peking in 1952 to train cadres for the
minority areas. (ln the PRC, cadres serve as a link
between the people and the RevolutionarY Çomr
mittees. They instruct the people in Marxism,
Leninism, and Mao Tsetung Thought, provide
services, and organize iri the areas to which they
are assigned.) 10;000 students have graduated
fÈom this institute. Students train for a three-year
period, tho many of them have worked as much as
10 years or more in their own communities. Many
Tibetans, for example, study the Han language
and then go on to medical school. llliteracy in Tibet
was almost 99% before the 1966 Cultural Revolution. Many ótudents who know the Han language
are trained in the minority languages so they may
sefve as interpreters and translators in minority
areas. They are taught the music, fine arts, and
dances of the minorities in preparation for their
assignments

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The Central lnstitute maintains a library for
students, a gallery for the display of natÏve
products. Mbdelfigures, 2 inches high, depicting
minorities in natioñal dress, are on view. Study
halls and libraries are popular with the students.
To strengthen political and economic relations
with the national minorities, the central government, while levying a small tax on'them, gives
more direct aid to them than they do to the predominately Han population. "We do not," a
spokesperson says, 'igo in for a policy of migration. No group has been moved from one place to
another.t As'a symbol of special status, minority
tanguages are printed on Chinese currency, and
as furthlr evidence of China's commitment to the
integration of the minorities, they are represented
on the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and in the NationalÞeoples Congress. (14o/o'of them in this body.)
- Then there are the children of China. Like older
persons, they werè objects of violence, often from
birth, and especially if they were girls. Among the
poor classes,-immediate death by suffocátion was

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not unusual for them. Both boys and girls were
sold into slavery when parents could not feed
them or were themsélves, starving. Many children
were left to roam the streets of the larger cities.
Todav, Chinese children are generally planned
for 12 children families in the cities are the desired
number; 3 children in the countryside are the
rule) anil nursery care is provided for them as
earlí as 56 days old. All children begin school at
aseT , and continue for 5 to 6 years; go on to
tñi¿Oie School for 3 more years and then may elect
2 more years of training, eventually preparing

themseives for a university education.
Classes are large, usually 50 students, and
classrooms are very traditional with bolted desks,
seatins two, and conventional blackboards, and ,
the chädren impress visitqrs by their disciplined
behavior as well as by their spontaneity , grace,
and absence of self-consciousness. Théie qualities

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are most noticeable in their dancing, singing, and

musical performances. ln their acrobatics, they
are nothing less than astounding.
The thrustpf their education is to "combine
learning with pôlitics." Even at the kindergarten
level, boys and girls perform ballets with revolu- '
tionary themes. Before each dance number, a
young'student announces the title of what is to be
preseìted, so in this way you are reminded that

"Barefoot Doctors Are Like Sunf lowers, " or ''A
New Situation Prevails at the Red. Flag Canal, " or
that "People of All Nationalities Love Our Great
Leader" ánd that "We Will Send our Best Cloth to
Peking." The costumes for thesè ballets dazzle
with their color and detail-shocking pink jackets
worn with turquoise colored pants; black velvet
aprons embroidered with floral appliques!
To further bring its children into the mainstream of society, China has set up a network of
"Childrens Palaces" in the major cities. They
provide after-school activities for 7 to 14 year olds.
iSut these activities are not exclusively for recreational purposes or to keep the children off the
j.streets. They are activities designed for the moral,
intellectual, and physicaldevelopment of the
children. To be precise, the programs are meant
"to carry on the revolution,l' but predominately in
nonviolent ways. Even tho most of the young
people wear the red kerchief, to identify them as
members of the "J r. Cuard of the Peoples Liberation Army," the activities,they participate in may
range from ballet instruction to model making and
trans i stor assembl i ng. Acupuncture study classes
are conducted; puppet shows produced; simulated
boat and bicycle races are engaged in. (Foreign
guests are eépecially invited to ioin in these
t'competitive" sports, and do!)
The children at the Children's Palace of the
Puto District in Shanghai tell us that they also
'''study works by M4o, Lenin, and Marx and
attend lectures on currént affairs!" "We develop
social consciousness in the society i' an 1'l year
old girltells us as she chairs a briefing session.

(The Puto Children's Palace was built over an area

that was formerly a cemetery. Fach of Shanghai's
10 districts has its Childrens Palace.) Oùr..11 year
old chairperson ends our meeting with a sùr¡prise

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request: "Please tell your President, Mr. Nixon,
that the tree he planted here has taken root!"
Heavy assignments can, fall to the youth of
China, but they bring them into the society in
useful and constructive ways. The building of the
"Youth Tunnel," the longest and toughest to
excavate on the Red Flag Canal is an historic
example of China's delegation of responsibility to
young people. The task of tunneling or piercing
thru a granite cliff was assigned to a shôck brigade
of 300 young men and women. Working with
hammers and steel drill rods, and by developing a
triangular blasting techniqué they cônstiuct'ed ã
tunnel616 metres long, 5 metres high, and 6.2
metres wide. ln 1 year and 5 months the tunnel
was successfully completed although it had been
estimated that the work would take five years. ln
praise of the "young peoples hard work and'
spirit" it was named "The Youth Tunnel. "
There was probably no greater group in Chi¡a
who-experienced more violence beforethe revolution than women. They were degraded, humiliated, and held in contempt. Today, "Women
enjoy equal rights with men in all respects,"
rights guaranteed in Article 27 oÍ Constitution of
the Peoples Republic of China. Nevertheless, the
struggle for women's liberation continues. "lt
is," says Madame Lee, a, member of the Standing
,Committee of Shanghai'i Luwei District Women's
Federation," an erroneous idea that to be
'líberated w'oriren must fight rñeh. Thè !;truggle for'
liberation should be conducted between the exploiting class and the exploited." lt was Mao who
said "when women rise up, China's revolution

will succeed."

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Steady social, economic, and political gains
have been made by Chinese women since libera-

tion, October 1,1949. Reversing a centuries old
practice, their marriages are no longer arranged
by their families. Women may retain their maiden
names and most choose to do so. No one wears a
wedding ring. Men share household duties and
child care; monogamy is practised. (Pursuit of
extra-marital affairs is a "bourgeois right" and
something to be overcome.) The women we.heard
from in Shanghai tell us that a whole new style of
social relationships between men and women have
comp into being, but that does not mean the
struggle is over. These relationships must be
enjoyed by all Chinese women. "Erroneous
ideas" on such matters as the róle of division of
labor ("men's work, women's work") still persist.
But the women we heard from believe that this is
only because not enough women cadres have been
trained to carry on the work of re-education .
"Division of labor is still associated with habits of
the past. That doesn't mean they won't change."
"Anything a man can do, a woman can do," Mao
tells us, and women do pilot planes, work as ship
crews, operate cranes on the Shanghai docks,
drive trucks, function as customs officials. But in
teaching and in the textile mills women workers
predominate.
Family planning services are available to all
married women. Unmarried women "just nevei
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ask" or "the question has not come up" we learn.
The pill, a monthly injection, or stèrilization are
most frequently prescribed. The decision of which
to choose is left to the woman. Sterilization is
opted for by both sexes in many cases. The
Chinese women laugh at our question "who gets
sterilized more," but we are told it is the women,
Since those who brief us emphasize how
progress in production follows periods of criticism
of "câpital ist. roaders" or " ri ght deviation ists, "
as pragmatic Westerners we ask in what ways this
is so. The women we are talking with give ui this
example: Following the cultural revolution, when
Lin Piao and Confucious were being criticized, the
women in a thumb-tack factory demanded their

own study group. Their average age was 45. Four:
out of the 16 who participated were píomoted;
four joined the CCP, and all workers increased
their production, "as a result of political studies."
The production quota of this thumb-tack factory
has risen 1Oo/o every year since.
A young fvoman who piogressed from worker to
technician tells of the struggle with her family
when they opposed her desire to seek advanced
education. She won out and now she is a tool designer in the Shanghai Tools Factorv. She is also
an elected delegate to the Communist Party
Congress. Achievements unthinkable for women
before liberation.
Women are 5O.60/o of the 10 million population
of Shanghai ahd a// of them between 18 and 45 are
employed. 40o/o of the Shanghai delegation to the
1975 Peoples Congress were women. The Central
Committee of the CCP has three women vicepremiers, and there is a woman deputy Foreign
Minister who participates in formulatinþ foreign
policy.
L.ike the enduring symbol of national strengthr
and unity th.at is the Creat Wall of China (the only
human-made structure on the planet Earth that ió
visible from outer space), the Chinese are building
from years of struggle, both armed and unarmed,a Human Wall of people that is triumphing over
. violence and internal as well as external dif,ferences. lt should be studied by all movement
people. Tho pacifists may reject the use of arm's,
there is much for them to learn from the peoples
Republic of China on the role of mass organizations, political unity, and leadership in tñe
creation of that nonviolent revolution they seek.
The revolution in China must not be allowed to

fail.

POEMS OF MAO TSETUNG

TAPOTI
Summe¡1933
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo,

violet-

Who is dañcing, waving this coloured ribbon
against the skY?
The sun returns slanting after the rain
And hill and pass grow a deeper blue.
A furious battle once raged here,
Íhe vi I lage wal ls, bul let-scarred,
Now adorn hill and pass
And make them doubly fair.

HUICHANG
Summer 1934

MITITIAWOMEN
INSCRIPTION ON A PHOTOGRAPH
February 1961
How bright and brave they look shouldering

five-foot rifles
On the parade ground lit up by the first gleams of
day.
China's daughters have high-aspiring minds,
They love their battle aîrav, not silks and satins.

will break in the east.
"You start too early";
Crossing these blue hills adds nothíng to one's years,
Soon dawn
Do not say

The landscape her:e is beyond compare.

Straight from the walls of Huichang lofty peaks,

SHAOSHAN REVIS¡TED

'Range after range, extend to the eastern seas.

Our soldiers point southward to Kwangtung
Looming lusher and greener in the distance.

lune 1959
I

visited Shaoshan on J une 25, 1959 after an absence of th¡rty-two years.

Like a dim dream recalled, I curse the lonçrfled

PEITAIHO
Summer 1954

A rainstorm sweeps down on this northern land,
White breakers leap to the sky.
N Are seen on the boundless ocean.
Where are they gone?
Nearly two thousand years ago
Wielding his whip, the Emperor Wu of Wei
Rode eastward to Chiehshih; his poem survives.
Today the autumn wind still sighs,
But the world has changed!

past-

My native soil two and thirty years gone by.
The red flag roused the serf, halberd in hand,
While the despot's black talons held his whip aloft
Bitter sacrifice strengthens bold resolve
Which dares to make sun and ¡noon shine in new

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skies.
HaBpy, I see wave upon wave of paddy and beans,
And all around heroes home-bound in the evening

mist.

Drawings by Peg Averill
Sept. 30, 1976 WIN 13

One, Two,

-_*ñ!@

Many
Continental Walks

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Village, Sunday,
Crowds throns a Continental walk street fa¡r in Crqgnwich
September 1 1: Photo bY Ed Hedemann '

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The Continental Walk in lndiana
The main route of the Continental Walk reached
Cary, lndiana on August 29 for a rally at City Hall.
Mayor Richard Hatcher of Cary signed the Hiroshima appeal. Hatcher was responsible for presenting a resolution on disarmament to the Democratic Mayors meeting in Milwaukee which
passed. Walkers left Gary and traveled through
rural lndiana past the proposed site of the eailley
nuclear poryer plant. Local organizers arranged a
releasing of black balloons with cards in them to
illustrate how the wind can carry nuclear contamination. The walk arrived in South Bend where
they leafletted and were met by locál pieji.
ln Elkhart, on Sept. 3, the walkers attended a
dinner w¡th folks from the Church of the Brethren

Jim Peck is on the WRL staff anil has joinìed the
Walk a number of times in difterentplaces.
Frances Crowe helped organize the Western New
England Walk. Bob Russe// and John Maddaus
are long distancç walkers from Western New
Yòrk. Maureen O'Donnell is a member of the
Wàtk national statf .
David
abandoned
borhood

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cutbacks.

Saturdav, Sept. 11, some 200 persons marched
to the UN ànd rallied there. The big surprise was

C¡ntinental walkers set up
Barbara Corr,

a demonstrat¡on outside a hospital in St. Louis. photo by

and Mennonites who are trying to organize a Fel-

lowship of Reconciliation in Elkhart.
Labor Day, Sept. 6, walkers arrived in Ft.
Wayne for a fair in Friemann Park. Ten to fifteen
people from the Evansville-Muncie, lN, route arrived in Ft. Wayne at almost thie same time. Some
15 groups had displays and booths at the fair including a food co-op from the black community,
the local People United to Save Humanity (PUSH)
chapter and a war tax resistance group. A good number of people attended the four hour fair.'People
spoke on how the. Walk f it into their ongoing activism and several of the walkers spoke. One person
brought a rope the leng.th of the Trident with black
flags attached for each warhead. The rope
stretched around the entire fair area and really
brought attention to the issue of the Trident. That
evening, 75 people attbnded a pot luck at the Unitarian Meeting House for discussions and a

showingof,Nixon's.Secret Legacy.
, Í
The Walk left lndiana and crossed the Ohio
border making a first stop in Bluffton, Ohio. They
were met by the press, and walkers spoke with
students at Bluffton college. The Waik will travet
through Ohio to be in Cleveland by Sept. 20.

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Walking in the Big Apple
The Boston-Washington leg of the Continental
Walk arrived in New York City on Sept. I with a
vigil at the busiest shopping intersection in the
Bronx, Crand Concourse and Fordham Road. We
vigiled on two pedestrian islands, one containing
an Army-Air Force recruiting station and the
other, a Navy-Marines recruiting station. Our
hosts for the night were members of the peace
group at Co-op City, site of the tenants' strike
which ended recently with an agreement under
which the tenants will run the giant state housing
project for a six month period.
Next day, we started at the Bronx County
Courthouse, walked through the South Bronx,
New York's most poverty-stricken ghetto, and
crossed the Harlem River into Manhattan for a
noontime rally in front of an abandoned building
which Fight Back, a community organization, hãs
taken over and is rehabilitating with the aid of unemployed construction workers.
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Fridav. we vieiled at Columbia tJniversity,
walked áôwn Mãnhattanis West Side and rallied
at a neighborhood health center hit by city funding

the unscheduled appearance of Joan Baez, who
the previous evening had sung at a benefit concert
for the Chilean solidarity struggle. She spoke and
sang at the rally.
Sünday, a stieet fair in Creenwich Village for.
the benef¡î of the Walk drew thousands of people.
The fair featured food, crafts, literature about the
Walk and entertainment. The Walk raised ovei
$2000from the day's events. i ;
Monday marked, for me, the ñost important
stoooine óoint of tÉe Boston-Washington walkwáli Stie'et. We vigiled there following a walk
from midtown andþrior to a noontime rally at City
Hall. Wall Street symbolizes the real rulers of this

to#ll"onesday,

after a day of rest, we walked'
from Times Square to the Ceorge Wâshington
Bridge and across the bridge where we were met
bv 10 New Jersey walkers and a big banner: "New
Jérsey Welcomes The Continental Walk'"

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-Jim

Peck

Western Massachusetts Walk
Focuses on Local lssues
The Western Massachusetts Walk concentrated
on local issues as it passed through the small Connecticut Valley towns and cities. We foqused on

the dangers of the spiialing arms race and called
for cuts in militaiy spending in order to meet
human needs at home.
During the week before the Walk, petitions
which called upon the local governments t9 endorse the position of the uS Conference of
Mayors-to redirect federal spending to meet
local town needs rather than to support excessive
and unnecessary m i I itary program s - were ci rculated and signatures collected. As the Walk
participants passed through the towns of
Montague, Greenfield, Leverett, Sunderland,
Amherst, Hadley, Northampton, Holyoke,
Chicopee, and Springfield, the petitions were
presented to the town officers with the request
that they take the resolutions to their own councils
for support. The councils were then encouraged to
pursue the matter further by contacting their
'

Mass nonviotent demonstrations are being planned in Washington for the u¡eekend of
óãó¡äiio itìlr" three main branches of ür.-ê Continental Walk converge on the city.
Actions will include a rally at Sylvan Theater, a "Procession of Death" to the Pentagon,
a march to the white'House to present demands to the President.
and
- Th"õrtlei¡on
of the tongest of ihe three routes, wli-ch started in Ukiah, California, in
represent
the iÍnking, by local-walkers, of hundreds of cities and towns
*i¡i
l"nüi"v,
áðro"" iÉe nation. A few peopte hãi,e iryalked the entire 3,7fl) miles. The other two
branches are coming from New Orléans and Boston.
Demands being ñ'ade by the sponsoring groups are:

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lmmediate and unilateral action toward disarmament

-ru¡¡ãmp¡ovmãnt at decent wages
to racism
-An endrights
for women
-Equat
amnesty
for allVietnam War resisters
-Full
of
the
CIA
-Abolition
aid
for
our cities
-lmmediate

The demonstrations are beinc orcanized by a diverse coatition of groups including
American Friends Service Comlnittée, Felloúship of Reconciliation, Southern Christian
¡-"iáôrjtt p cq;l"re;¿;-Souitr"tn organizin g Com m ittee, and War Resisters. Lea g ue. Ï he
sponsoringorganizatioás are workinãtogethõr for the common goals of drastically cutting
bãck militãry funds and supporting progiams which meet human needs.
For information on WalË åC¡v¡tiéå ¡n'-Wastrington, contact The Conti¡ental Walk, 339
Lafayette St., New York, NY 1¡p'12; orcall (2121677.5455 in New York or (202)234'20ffi in
Washington
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Congresspeople. ln Amherst and Northampton
and Holyoke, a selectwoman and the mayors,
'
respectively, received the petitions with
enthusiastic support and will take the issues to
their councils. ln other towns local people will
pursue the matter further, keeping in contact with
the.tÖwn's g.overning bo{V bV attending meetings
and presenting them with reáding material andpetitions. People in Sunderland, Hadley, and
Chicopee already have appointments to ineet with
their own town council to get an endorsement of
the mayors' statement. We felt that our message
reached many more citizens because of the off¡õial
support given by town officers.
As we passed through the towns we aligned our
cause with the good projects already in pógress.
ln Northampton we met at the Communitv

Canning Center, a public facility encouraging
people to either grow and process their own
produce or to support local farmers by buying and
p.reserving their produce. Dinner that evening was

shared with the Unemployment/Employment
Council. ln Holyoke we affirmed the good work of
Work, lnc. Each town had problems that were
related to a lack of funds.
The decentralization of our Walk added to the
poÌver of our message. Each day broughi forth
different Walkers from the locai areasl only tWo or
three people were long-distance participants until

The Walk in Western New York
The Syracuse-to-Cleveland feeder route of the
Continental Walk began on August 20 with a
send-off .rally attenle{.by 40 people. The rally
began with music, leafletting and a disarmament
d.isplay. Local activists and walkers performed a
skit on federal taxation and spendinþ priorities,
Several speakers discussed the Walk,'the arms
r4ce and nuclear por41er. People then walked a one
mile.route through downtown Syracuse with signs
and leaflets
The walkers are proceeding through small upstate New Yot:k towns, contacting and discussing
the walk's issues with local grouós. This is the most enjoyåble part of the Continental Walk. The
walkers have been surprised at the generally
favorable reaction they get from peõple aboút'disarmament and social justice,
The Walk through western New York and
northeastern Ohio is being cpordinated by the
Syracuse Peace Center, the Cenesee Vallêy Citir zens for Peace, the Rochester Peace and Justice
Education Center, the Western New York Peace
Center in Buffalo, and the Pax Center in Erie, pA.
The five long distance walkers from western ñew
York will meet the main route of the Walk in

A deleeation of Geese for Peace ioin the Appalachian walkers during a
break fär a meal. Photo by Maureen O'Donnell.

On Monday, Sept. 6, walkers joined the East
Tennessee Peace Education Committee at the
museum to leaf let and petition that the devastation of nuclear war be shown in the museum's
weapons exhibit. Currently, the weapons exhibit
shows the dropping of the Hiroshima bomb, and
the next picture is of people cheering in the streets
of New York that the war is over. The 240,000
.J apanese who ultimately died as a result of the
bombs are not shown. A display of photos of

Cleveland, Ohio.

-Bob

Russell and John Maddaus

paintings by Hiroshima victims, brought by
iSarbara Reynolds of Wilmington, Ohio, was set
up outside the museum as a proposed exhibit.
Many people signed a petition to have the exhibit
incorpôrated in the. museum. lt appeared that a
number of .people walkers spoke to agreed with us
but would ñot sign the petition for fear it might
affect their job with the nuclear plant.
A core group of five walkers, plus three to five
community folks joining each day, walked from
Oak Ridge to Karns Crossroads Sept. 7, to Knoxville on Sept. B and into Maryville, Tennessee,
Sept. 9. Each evening the local communities had
potlucks and there were good discussions and the
"Cuns or Butter" and "Active Nonviolence" slides

a

The Appalachian route walkers cross North
Carolina. Photo by Maureen O'Donnell.

the J apanese Buddhists joined us in Holyoke. We
ended each day with a pot.luck supper, with food
provided by the community in which we were
staying, and an open meeting and showing of
"Lovejoy's Nuclear War." Press coverage was
very good. All the local newspapers hadãt least
one, and usually more, supportive articles and
photographs concerning our Walk. As the Walk
continued south into Connecticut, we in Western
Massachusetts felt very good about the convincing
strength of our message and the open response
that we received.
-Frànces Crowe
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shown.
People along the way so far have been very welcoming and often agree with the goals of the Walk.
Walkers had many good exchanges of ideas with
small store owners and gas station operators along
the highway. lt was good to be able to take the
time to communicate beliefs and to listen to others'
ideas, feärs and concerns.
Four long distance walkèns-Diane Spaugh,
Steve Summerford, Chip Postun, and Ken
Powers- left Maryville for Tremont, TN, on
Friday, Sept. 10, and willtravelthrough North
Carolina and Virginia joining with the Southern
route in Charlottesville, VA, and on into

The Walk in Appalachia

The Appatachian route of the Continental Walk
began in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on Sept. 5, with a
memorial service at the Craphite Reactor at the
Oak Ridge X-10 Plant. The plutonium.and
uranium for the bombs dropped on J apan were
made here. Twenty-five people gathered and
shared silence and then thoughts and readings on
war and social injustice. Ten of the group began
the walk at the reactor anij walked into ôak Ridge
to the Museum of Atomic Energy.

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Washington, DC for Oct. 15.

-Maureen O'Donnell

The Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social
Justice will be in and moving through Delaware County October 3, 4, and 5. The
following local groups are co-sponsoring the
Walk: Women's Action Coalition, Alliance
for the Liberation of Mental Patients,
Women's lnternational League for Peace and
Freedom (Swarthmore Branch), West
Chester Coalition to Stop the B-1 Bômber¡
Youth Advocates, lnc. The actual breakdown
of the three days is as follows:
'
Sunday, Octôber 3-We will meet the' ,
Walk as it comes out of West Philadelphia bt
I
61st and Baltimore at aboutlO am. Each of
,
the participating groups will have a banner
or sign identifying themselves. After a short
welcome, we will begin walking up Balt¡more
Pike (on the sidewalk) towards Media. With
rest stops and a lunch break, we hope to be
in Media by late afternoon. At 6:30 pm a
potluck/town-meeting is planned for Media
Friends Meeting, 125 West 3rd Street. The
Town-meeting will feature speakers, music,
and possibly, a film.
Monday, October 4-9 am, assemble at
the Delaware County Courthouse, Front St.
and South Ave., Media. The Walk will
proceed down Baltimore Pike onto P¡ovidence Road and into Chester. A lunch stop is
planned at a local facility for about noon.
After which, we will proceed into the heart of
Chester for demonstrations at Armed Forces
Recruiters (Jobs not militarization), lnternal
Revenue Service (taxes for people's services,
not H-Bombs), and accentuating the
positive, a local-day care center or health

facility.
Tuesday, October 5-9 am, assemble at
Chester Friends Meeting (24th and Chestnut) to begin the final stretch of the Walk (in
our area). The Walk will proceed down 9th
Street.in Chester and through the boroughs
of Trainer and Lower Chichester. Farewells
and a re-dedication to continue the nonviolent struggle will be made at the Delaware
border of Route 92 and Ridge Avenue.
We are asking churches, church-groups,
and civic organizations to invite one of our
representatives to speak about the Walk and
its related events. We are also approaching
people about lodging and accommodations
for the long-distance walkers. People, cars,
and money are needed. lt goes without
saying, the Continental Walk is whatever we
all make it. Anyone def initely interested in
walking, please contact the off ice (215-5650247) betorehand.

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another IPS Fellow, Marcus
Raskin. Letelier was giving them a
lift as their own car was out of
service.
FBI and Trèasury Department
agents have launched an investigation of the explosion.

-Newsdesk
FOUR IURORS CHOSEN
IN SAXE CASE
The trial of Susan Saxe, who has
pled not gùilty to charges of bank
robbery and felony murder
growing out of the 1970 robberY at
the State Street Bank and Trust.
Company in Boston, began in

Suffolk Superior Court last
Wednesday. As 40 to 45 people
demonstrated outside the courthouse, chanting "Free Susan

\

Orlando Letelier being arrested ¡n Santiago, Chileon September 11, 1973 duringthe military
coup which overthrewthe Salvador Allende government. Photo from UPl.

EX¡LED CH¡LEAN DIPLOMAT
ASSASSINATED IN
WASHINGTON; TWO OTHERS
CAUCHT IN EXPTOSION
Orlando Letelier, former Chilean
ambassador to the US and
Minister of Defense under the
Salvador Allende government was

killed Tuesday, September 21in
Washington, DC when his car exploded, apparently from a bomb.
Ronnie Moffet, a staff member at
the lnstitute for-Policy Studies
(lPS), who was riding in the car
with Letelier was also killed. Her
husband, Michael Moffet, also on
the IPS staff, was in fair condition
at Ceorge Washington University
Hospital, Letelier was serving as
director of the IPS Transnational
t nstitute i n Washi ngton.
Letelier was active in the
Socialist Party in Chile where he
served as Director of the Federation of Students in 1951 and was
an off icer of the lnter-American
Developfnent Bank from
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Sept. 30, 1976

1960-1970. He was arrested in
Santiago during the military coup
on September 11, 1973. Along
with other leaders of the Popular
Unity Party, he was taken to a
concentration camp at Dawson lsland. The junta was forced to release him in September,1974 as a

result of international agitation for
his freedom. He was immediately
expelled from Chile.
Since then, Letelier was one of
the leaders of Popular Unity and
Chilean resistance abroad. He appeared in New York City at a Joan
Baez-Pete Seeger benefit concert
for Chilean human rights on September 10. That same day the
Chilean junta announced that
Letelier's citizenship had been
revoked. Letelier had recently
mentioned to friends that he believed his life was in danger. He
felt his activities would cause the
Chilean lunta to murde.r him.
Ronnie Moffet was air assistant
tó IPS Fellow Richard Barnet;
Michael Moffet is an assistant to

Saxe" and " )ail the J ailers," the
court began the crucial process of
jury selection.
Because of the defense claims
of inflammatory pre-trial publicity, J udge Walter H.
Mclaughlin has allowed 32 preemptory challenges to the defense
as opposed to the prosecution's 16
chal lenges. Uhder Massachusetts
law, only the presiding judge can
ask questions of potential jurors.
So far, J udge Mclaughlin has not
asked any of the jurors their attitudes towards gay people;
Mclaughlin has, however, asked
the jurors if Saxe's description¡of
herself as a "revolutionary"
'would prejudice them against her.
The four jurors selected so far

include three women and one
man. J ury seleótion is expected to
continue through the end of this

week.

-GCN

TEN INJURED IN WASHINGTON
NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; STUDY
CITES HAZARDSOF
N UCLEAR WASTE MATERIALS
The perils of the country's billion
dollar nuclear industry were illustrated on August 30 when a
small explosion of nuclear waste
materials sprayed two workers
with radioactive materials and
contaminated eight other workers

with lower doses.
The explosion, which occurred
at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Washingtoñ,
was caused by unexpected chemical reactions in a 13-quart container of liquid radioactive wastes.
The reactions caused pressure to

build and shatter the container,
along with a plexiglass window
that was supposed to protect

AIM SUES GOVERNMENT
FOR DEFAMATION
The American lndian Movement
(AlM) and Crusade for J ustice
(CfJ ) have filed a $2.5 million law
suit naming officials of the Connecticut State Police and the lm-

workers from the radioactive
materials.

Atlantic Richf ield operates
Hanford under a government contract to extract a radioactive element, americium, from liquid
pl uton i um rad ioactive wastes
stored in the facility's underground tanks. Americium is sold
to the oil-drilling and medical industries as an alpha-emitting
isotope.
The most severely injured
worker received "way more

radiation than he should have,"

ï

and another worker was also badly

contaminated, according to Dr.
Brice Britenstein, a doctor at the
Hanford facility, who has been
treating the injured.
"lt'll still be a while before we
can determine the long-term
effects from the americium on the
patient," Britenstein said. The
most severely injured worker injested americium as a result of the
explosion.
But Britenstein minimized the
effect of the radiation on the
patient, whom he said was suffering no immediate effeçts from
the radiation.

Although Britenstein said that
the eventual effects of americium
on humans is unknown, he admitted that experiments with
laboratory animals injected with
americium eventually caused
lung, liver, kidney and blood
damage, along with bone malignancy.

At the gdvernment's major
storage facility in Hanford,
Washington, 18 leaks have resulted in losses of 430,000 gallons
of hieh level radioactive wastes

into the surrou¡ding soil. Ac- l
cording to another recent study,
conducted by the Environmental
Protection Agency, plutonium was
being washed out of low level
waste buried in a commercial
dump in Kentucky into the sur-'
rounding soil.
,'These leaks have neither
killed nor injured anyone to
date," the rePort to the Energy
Reséarch and Development

Aî-

ministration said. "Nonetheless.
their hazard will remain for
hundreds of thousands of years."

-LNS

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migration and Naturalization
Service as defendants.
The suit is based on a J úne 16
communication sent by Telex wire
by the Connecticut State Police
red squad stating that AIM and
CfJ planned to launch a program
to kill a police officer every day
until J uly 4. Police officials later
admitted that this report was
based on rumor. Meanwhile,
police in Colorado and Detroit
instituted contingency plans for
stopping lndian and Chicano militants. Another unidentified police
force told the loçal press that AIM
and CfJ were actually killing cops.
ln addition to the monetary
damages, the suit calls for an injunction against sending out unsubstantiated i nformation on
official channels and a formal
apology and correction to be sent
by wire to all police departments
that received the original
message.

-Jack Schwartz/WKLDOC
NAGASAKI ANNIVERSARY
MARKED BY PHILADELPHIA
IRSACTION
'On Monday, August 9, five persons entered the Philadelphia IRS
office (located in the Phila.
Federal building), and poured
human blood on blank 1040 forms
to protest the use of taxes for
nuclear arms. The demonstration
coincided with the 31st anniversary of the nuclear bombing of
Nagasaki.

After about 400 forms had been
doused with b¡ood, the five-Beth
Centz, Martha Zinn, Robert M.
Smith, Matthew Horwitz, and Rob

Janett-held a religious service
around the bloodied forms in
order "to commer¡orate and to rededicate, to remember and to
resist.

"

After frequent orders from IRS
personel commanding the five to

leave, Federal security guards

were called and the five were escorted out of the office, detained

for an hour, and then released.
Local lRS, after lengthy consultations with "higher-ups," declined
to press charges. -Robert Smith
RECORD MILITARY BUDGET

A record military budget oÍ í1O4.4
billion was approved by the
Senate and sent to the White
House Sept. 13. President Ford is
expected to sign it although it is
$3.6 billion less thañ,he had requested. The amount is15.3o/o
more than the sum approved by
Congress last year. Next day, the
Pentagon announced that for
1978, it will seek a budget of $130
billion.
The1977 budget delays final
decision on production of.the B-1
bomber until after the Presi-

dentialelection. -Jim Peck
EVENTS
BAY AREA-October

17 -24

has

been designated Trident Concern
week by the Pacific Life Community; events include educational presentations, speakers,
plays and films. Community
meetings are scheduled for San
Francisco, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale,
San Jose and Santa Cruz. For information, call Bob Alderidge,
(408)248-181s.
BOSTON
Rev. Philip Zwerling
speaks on "Why Does the US still
Fear the Cuban Revolution?" at
the Community Church, 602

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Commonwealth Ave., Sunday,
Sept. 26, 11 am. For information,
call (617)266-6710.

NYC-Memorial service for
Walter Lowenfels, Saturday,
October 9, 8 pm, at the Community Church, 35th St. west of
Park Ave.

NYC-WIN Afternoons at Crassroots presents a "Bessie Smith
Memorial." Live jazz& poetry.
Sunday, Oct. 3,2 pm at Crassroots Bar, St. Marks Place between 2nd & 3rd Aves. $2.00.
WIN readers and organizations
are encouraged to send in listings
for EVENTS. Demonstrations,
forums, benefits, etc. Please send
in listings far enough in advance
so they won't be dated by thê time
WIN reaches your area.
Sept. 30, 1976 WIN 19

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WORDS AND WOMEN: NTW LANGUAGE ¡N

NEW TIMES
Casey Miller and Kate Switt
Anchor Press / Doubleday 1197 paþes including
footnotes, bibliography, and index / $7.95
One of the clàims made by Casey Miller and Kate
Swift in their persuasive linguistic study is that it is
unlikely that any woman can recapture her feelings
when her consciousness was first struck by the
arbitrariness of the grammatical rule that mandates
the use of "he" when the referrent is indefinite or

done in the Carden of Eden would have been to bite
into one of those smart apples. At the age oÍ 14, I
decíded to stop being anxious about Goð, for my
worldly experience had, by that time, caused me to match up my image of him as a bearded patriarch
with men who sometimes made sexual advances

toward young girls. lf Cod, in addition to being stern
and punitive, behaved like those men who crawled in
next to me and my friends at the Saturday matinees
in the Loews Paradise, I certainly did not want a
place in heaven next to him. Becôming an atheist
was my first feminist act.
But by that time, the language had excluded me
from inore than heaven. As Miller and Swift point

out,
The subtle power of linguistic exclusion does not
stop in the schoolroom, and it is not limited to words
like man, men, brothert sonst fathers or forefathers
. . . . it must be remembered that the socializing
process, that step-by-step path we follow in adapting
to the needs oÍ society, is made up of many small experiences that often go unnoticed. Civen the male
norm, it becomes natural to think of women as an
auxiliary and subordinate class, and from there it is
an easy iump to see them as a minority or specìal

aqt

Etch¡ng by
Custav Dore

unknòwn. That claim may well be true, but I encountered Cod before I encountered grammar, and
the memory of that early experience was clearly with
me as I read this book, especially when I came to the
chapter on the language of religion which begins,
"Nowhere are the semantic roadblocks to sexual
equality more apparent-or significant-than in the
language of the dormant organized religions." I
remember the pain I felt when, in the Sunday School
to which my parents had dutifully brought me, I was
taught to pray and sing hymns to my father who was
in heaven and to his only begotten son. Where is the
place in heaven for my mother-and by extension,
me- | used to wonder. And why did not Cod beget a
daughter. My child's mind could not comprehend,
either, why Eve was sinful for eating the fruit of the
tree of knowledge, for the first thing I would have
Sandra ,Adickes teacf¡es at Staten Island Community
College. Lee Webster is a poet and a member of the
Socia/ist Party. He is now living in Milwaukee.

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interest group.
Calr.nly, and in convincing detail, the authors
refute the slighting claims of critics who maintain
that efforts to eliminate sexism from the language
are wasteful and tend to produce such awkward exchanges as person-person for mailman. That
language is political should be obvious in view of the
linguistic struggles which are taking place in
Canada, Spain, and South Africa. ln.those places,
the issue is clearly drawn: if a people surrender their
ancestral language, they surrendertheir identity. ln
this country, women are trying to transform the
language so that our self:images have linguistic
correlatives, and words which diminish our identities
fall from use. l, for exantple, am a mature woman
who conducts her professional and family life with
care and skill. Yet, when t walk in the streets, men I
do not know feel free to call out to me, "Hey
Blondie!" or "Hi, girliet" Thosewords, those
trivializing suffixes have nothing to do with the
reality of my life.
And yet they do. Miller and Swift demonstrate
persuasively that linguistic exclúsion and denigration affect the terms of women's existence. ln doing
so, they make respectful and colleaguial attributions
to the work of other women in this field. Especially
useful are the guidelines for linguistic change which
the authors include in an epilogue, 4'Let the

Meaning Choose the Word," and I commend them
to people who, as I do,.teach,wrltlng' l.ne suggestioi'rt .io noi.ãtL tot awkward new constructions, but
,teã tht" åãt"tion of forms already in use' The
for example; that the pronoun
"uit-,ois-rãðãñmend,
they bõ ,;d ;;; singular.pronoun, thereby avoiding
the'sexism-õf;;eu"ty one brought his pen" and the
incongruity of "Eveiy one brought.his or,her.pen."
Thãwomen's movement has indisputably had an
impact on laÁguage. Those who speak and write for
an'audiencã.ãn, ln reality, no longer be casual or
callous in their choice of words. To be sure, the
Þresent staee of this new scrutiny of language
þroduces sJme inharmonious results. During the
þeriod thaiiwas reading Words and Wo.me¡, an ad
in the New York Iimes announced that the Tavern on
the Creen was hiring captainS, waiters, waitresses,
t¡
and buspersons.
I
Even the srumpiest of critics, think, múst
caie and precision with
u";;t";iiy
"Ul-"-òñiããâäthat
languageãre àtt to tnãgood. Putting moré thought..
behind"oui words pro.ìses to deliver us from the allpurpose comic stríp balloon language too.long in
äuriency. " Heavy," " wow," "out-of-sight,"
togethei with a vái¡ant of "'tuck" hav-e served to.'
ó"i*¡t ó"ople io couéiull situations, limit their
.ang" oi thôught, and avoid commitment of real
iäli;t. By;;kihe tò a"liu"r the mother tonsue
from domination by the father tongue, women' as
Miller and Swift point out, are creating new images
and svmbols and'bringing into being more inclusive
ways of describing the indescribable.
-Sandra Adickes

LIVING IN THE OPEN
Marge Piercy
Knopf, New York / 1976 / $3.95
WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME
Marge Piercy
Knopf, New York I 1976 / g1O
Creating the future is thg most urgent artistic task
thatweäre engaged in. Making poems and novels
along the wayls good practice, acélebration of our
soul in and of itself , as well as a strong blow against
a lethargic and spoiling societY.
Margé Piercy has always been one of my favoriteartists. An artist who can weld the joys and pains ot a
dav's life with the vision of a new world. The
caóitalist press has given her new book, Woman on
tt ä f¿g" of Time, quite nasty reviews, reviews-that
are
-- unfair.
Wolnun on the Edge of Time is the tale of a woman
uniustlv placed in a mental institution; unjustly
f#*d to'live in poverty, unjustly taxed and welfared
and used by the society we live in and are trying to
chanse. Through the vehicle of Connie, the woman
institîtionalized on the edge of time, we are given
uii¡onS of future worlds. Visions good and bad,
visions that,talk to us, visions thal remind me of my
childhood days when, caught in an oppressive situatioÀ, I would swear that I'd be a different kind of
parent.

It is a visión that drives all of us on the Left; a
vision of a better world; a world without ageism,
racism. sexism, and militarism; a world without
oovertú. hunger, false rituals; a world where we
l""fé ti'r'" decTsions that affect our lives. lt is this
wãrld that Marge Piercy's work speaksto. lt is this
world, built ouiof a vision from the old world, that
hã. bóok tempts us with and energizes us with'
Wornán on the Edge of Time is not only a good book,
but a beaut¡ful and- essential book.
Ms. Piercy experiments with language within this
book and to my m¡nd the experiments come off
naturally-evén adding to the realism of the work.
Not surfrisingly, the central effect of this tinkering
with ZOth Century American English is to obviate its
sexist aspects. Language changes all the time,
usuallv not overnight, bgt this type of experimentation is essential to f inally overcoming institution'
alized biases in the way we write and speak. The
treatment o-f Ianguage in this work is testament to
Marge Piercy's genius

#
Drawing bY J ulie Maas

The Past /eads us if we force it to.
Otherwise it contains us
in its asylum with no gates.
We make history or it
makes us.

Living in the Open is in paperback; Woman on the
Edge of Time is not, but will be shortly. lf you cln't
wait, why not use one of the good institutions of our
age: the

librarY'

-Lee webster
Sept. 30, 1976 WtN21

20WlN Sept.30,

1976

PUBLICAIIONS

LIVING ALTERNATIVES

New creat¡ve ryrit¡ng contest each month. SASE
appreciated. MODUS OPERANDI, Box 36-n,

Brookeville, MD20729.

RECON, October issue inclu{es: Future Plans for
Stop the B-1 Bomber Campaign, U.S. Márines Lack
Purpose, Alternat¡ve to Panama Canal, and níuch
more. Please sendi3/year (12 issues) or SØ/copy
to RECON Publ¡cat¡ons, P.O. Box 1,1602, Phila., PA
19134.

Seekcommunal living situation in NYC. Top rent
l1,l0, less if possible. Mary Sawford, 319 W. 94th
5t., #411, NYC 10025.
FREE ANIMALS

FREE-The most misunderstood airimal in the
is time and mother
earth. We are hop¡ng to promote more love and
respect for worms. Please write: Young Americans,
PO Box 1811, Pompano; FL 33061.
world. Only expense to you

PUBLIC NOÏICE
FRIENDS OF WALIER LOWENFELS are invited
to a inemorial celebrating h¡s life. Combination of
music and readings by poets, writers and friends.
Oct. 9, Community Church,,l0 E. 35th St., NYC, '
8pm. lnfo: Manna Lowenfels Perpelitt, Baron De
Hirsh Rd., Crompond, NY 10512. (914) 528-6931.

KITTENS-beautiful and free forthe asking. H.
Dickson McKenna,550 State St., Brooklyn;NY
11217. Phone 852-3375.

People's

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Weekend Work/PlayShop on SIMPLE LIVING;
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Mich igan. Sponsored by Chicago Movement for a
New Society (MNS), Friendship House, Zacchaeus
Col lective, Uptowiì Franciscans. For more info:
Friendship House,343 S. Dearborn, Rm.317,
Chicago, lL 60604. Tel. (312) 939-3347.

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Free il no exchange ol g8 inwlved
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Continental Walk T-Shirts are fast
being depletedl Be the first on vour
block, even your community to ùear

a 1VRL T-Shirtt Wéar the
Continental Walk T-Shirt to the
Washington Rally October l6thl

They make great giftsl The læasue
T-Shirts are available in white. liÁht
blue,,or yellow with green stenciliãg.
Graphic: broken rffle with Wãr
Resisters League spelled out below
the rifle. The Walk T-Shirt's $aphic
is the now-famous'bomb-intõ-dõve'

Position av¡il¡ble-The AFSC Peace Education and
a two- to three-year
d¡sarmament issues campaign in the Creater New
York area and is lookjng for a person to coord¡nate
th is.campaign. Write for deta¡led ¡ob description,
further info: AlyceCreswell, AFSö, NewYdrk'
MetroRegion, 15 Rutherford Pl., NYC, 10ü)3, or

Action Program is beginn¡ng

call

(212)777.-¿ffi

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Teachers of accounting/f inance,
management, or other business skills needed at
adult training center. Low pay for a ùhole experience. Write Dean of Studies, Mindolo Ecumenical Foundation, Box 1493, K¡twe, Zamb¡a.

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throughout US. Much travel. Good Jewish back-

ground essential; organ¡zing experience desire.
able. Send resume to Fieldworker, Net\¡Drk, 10th
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Are You Burnt Out or Burned Up ?
the social order is "dut".
The media has said "the movement" is dead. Expforing the inner self is f in" and changing
-reJognizing
links between foreign policy and
W. råV tfr. *our*.nt did not die, but deepened. Ii continued to organize while
domestic economics, between cuts in social welfare and higher military spending, be.tween unemployment at home and the

multinational corporate shift of jobs to Taiwan, South Korea, and the Philippines.

OCTOBER 16-An End and a Beginning
On January 2l of this year a group'of women and men set out frorn Uliiah in Northern California on the fìrst leg of a walk across
the country. On April 4 e Southern route began in New Orleans. On August 6 a New England route began in Boston. All over the
country "feeder routes" began-a total of 2O-headed for Washington, D.C., and a final rally on October 16, Ecumenical service and
& Justice Fair on October 17, and march to the Pentagon and lVhite House on October 18.
But October 16 does not mæk an "end", but a beginning . . . an assembly to commit ourselves to profound, peaceful, and radical
changes in American society. Those who gatñer in Washington reject absolutely the idea that Americans can be complacent.
Peace

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YEARS after Hiroshima we have more nuclear weapons and less "national security" than when the nuclear arms race began.
44 YEARS after Roosevelt's New Deal we still have massive poverty, unemployment, and slum housing.
56 YEARS after women were given the right to vote, they still don't have equal rights and Amerlca is still a '.'macho nation".
I 13 YEARS after the Emancipation Proclamation Black Americans are still second class citizens
200 YEARS after our own creatien as a nation, we still do not respect the treaties signed with the Indian nations.

COME TO WASHINGTON OCTOBER 16 TO JOIN THOUSANDS IN DEMANDING:

.

o Immediate and unilateral action toward disarmament
o Full employment at decent wages.
o An end to racism.
¡ Equal rights for women.
¡ Full amnesty for all Vietnam wa¡ resisters.
o Immediate, massive aid to our cities.

LEAVE WASHINGTON TO CONTINUE WHAT HAS BEEN LAUNCHED . . .
. . .' a movêment rooted in the towçrs and city blocls, I movement less concerned with media attention than changing

the

consciousness of the people-and changing the political and economic structure of the country.

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TIIE CONTINENTAL WALK FOR
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D I/we plan to join the Walk in lVaslrington oir October 16

SrONSORING ORGANIZATIONS: American Fiiends Service Commiltee, Catholic Peace Fellowship, Catholic Worker, Clergy and Laity

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NAME

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Concerned, Episcopal Peace Feliowship, Fellowship' of Rõóonciliation,
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Universal & Unconditional Amnèsty, National Indian Youth
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Socialist Party, U.S.A., Southern
Leadershi¡ì' Conférence,
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Peace and Freedom, World Fe[ôwship. ENDORSING CRõUPS:
International Confederation for Disarmament and Peace, International
Fellowship
Japan Buddha Sanga, Íapan Council
-of_Beconciliation,
Agalnst A &
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